Opinion

Preparing our hearts and minds for Covid

We must learn to live with this virus, like we do with the hurricane season, and equip and prepare our health response and our bodies, but more our hearts and minds because it is there we will truly win this battle, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

KATA: Chartered Flights

LETTERS: Referendum on seabed mining

Letters for Saturday October 9, 2021

KATA: United against trees party

LETTERS: Destroying Rarotonga’s beautiful trees

Letters for Friday October 8, 2021

KATA: Public service weeding

LETTERS: Two sides of the same coin

Letters for Thursday October 7, 2021

KATA: ‘survival’ cash management strategy

LETTERS: Alarm bells keep ringing

Letters for Wednesday October 6, 2021

KATA: 'Pandora papers' scandal

LETTERS: Government network ‘misused’

Letters for Tuesday October 5, 2021

Vaccinations are the armour against Covid-19: PM Brown

All the information that our health experts and professionals at Te Marae Ora have to hand tells us that the Pfizer vaccine is just as safe for our 12–15-year-olds as it is for adults, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.

KATA: Conspiracy to defraud charges

‘Honesty costs nothing, lying could cost you everything’

Honesty is a very expensive gift, so don’t expect it from cheap people. It’s written that it pays to be honest, and time and time again it’s proven to be true.

LETTERS: Freedom of expression

Letters for Monday October 4, 2021

Having the power to lift

The pa’ata is a powerful, modern and traditional Cook Islands symbol for us all and clearly demonstrates that power is actually in our hands, and sits on our shoulders.

KATA: Women in leadership

LETTERS: Don’t shoot the messenger

Letters for Saturday October 2, 2021

The way our ancestors travelled

Sailing feels like reconnecting to the ways that our ancestors travelled. Don’t poke fun, I certainly had my fair share of Moana moments onboard Vaka Marumaru Atua, writes Terena Koteka-Wiki of Te Ipukarea Society.

KATA: Conspiracy to defraud